Nsah Mala Named Chairperson of Newly Created Mbessa Kingdom Indigenous Commission for Future Generations and Sustainability in Cameroon and Africa
Nsah Mala Named Chairperson of Newly Created Mbessa Kingdom Indigenous Commission for Future Generations and Sustainability in Cameroon and Africa The Mbessa Commission for Future Generations and Sustainability has been created, thus becoming the first indigenous initiative in Cameroon aimed at driving the implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Summit of the Future. […]
Luregn Lenggenhager Awarded SNSF Starting Grant: Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change
Luregn Lenggenhager Awarded SNSF Starting Grant: Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds excellent research at universities and other institutions – from chemistry to medicine to sociology. Researcher Luregn Lenggenhager currently resides at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) with a Marie Skodolowskaja project that compares […]
Fenny Nakanyete Completes University of Cologne & UNAM Cotutelle PhD
Fenny Nakanyete Completes University of Cologne & UNAM Cotutelle PhD Researcher Fenny Nakanyete just completed her PhD under a coututelle agreement between the University of Namibia (UNAM) and the University of Cologne. She was supervised by “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Javier Revilla Diez and UNAM Vice Chancelor Kenneth Matengu. Fenny rencently reflected […]
José Augusto Pádua Joins Panel at World Congress of Environmental History Chaired by Claudia Leal
José Augusto Pádua Joins Panel at World Congress of Environmental History Chaired by Claudia Leal In Late August of 2024, “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member José Augusto Pádua presented his research on the historical factors that help to understand the massive deforestation that has occurred in the Amazon forest, in a panel chaired […]
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub Cologne Officially Launched at MESH Symposium
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub Cologne Officially Launched at MESH Symposium A fantastic start to the MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities Symposium on 17 October: The late afternoon saw the official launch of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne! Welcome addresses included opening remarks by Director of the Cologne […]
SAPP Member Sandra Kurfürst Co-Organizes Social Sciences Session at Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium
SAPP Member Sandra Kurfürst Co-Organizes Social Sciences Session at Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium The Japanese American German Frontiers of Science Symposium takes place in Kyoto from 24 October until 27 October 2024. Planning Group Members Nicholas Laluk, Kojiro Sho, and “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Sandra Kurfürst (University of Cologne and German […]
MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian
MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian Ishika Ramkrishna is a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, working on studying the interactions between human-nonhuman primates. Recently she presented her research during the 2024 MESH Symposium on Multispecies Convivialtity. Alongside the villagers […]
Workshop: Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation – Reflections on Research With the Gwich’in of Canada’s North
Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation: Reflections on Research with the Gwich’in of Canada’s North Attempts to enable symmetrical forms of knowledge production that minimize epistemological as well as other hierarchies between researchers and research participants take many forms. In Canada and elsewhere, Indigenous groups have established institutions for managing research activities in their territories […]
Call for Abstracts: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies
Workshop: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies This two-day workshop is dedicated to the topic of elephant modernities and invites experts to discuss and explore the lifeworlds of African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) in the Anthropocene. The concept of “elephant modernity,” coined by “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member […]
MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz
MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz Lecture | Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface Professor Dr Sandra Díaz (Córdoba National University, Argentina) The international environmental science-policy interface has […]
